Europe is in danger of rolling electricity shortages

Re:Europe is in danger of rolling electricity shortages by izacus on Sunday September 25, 2022 @02:42PM (#32974536)

For starters: to compare reliability (which is a statistic), you need to first look at more than a single anecdotal time sample.

This is like... highschool level stuff. (Which is also the reason why I have very little will to refute your points, because they seem to be done from either dishonesty or ignorance. Anyone on HN is old enough to understand why anecdotal single sample evidence is not a way to refute statistical phenomena).

That is to say - even if EDF massively, critically fscked up this time, it has little effect to the reliability of nuclear power as a whole. Just like a single exploding windmill in Denmark doesn't change much about reliability of wind power.

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Re:Europe is in danger of rolling electricity shortages by mijoharas on Sunday September 25, 2022 @02:55PM (#32974703)

Ok, this is ridiculous, given your position, I'm not going to spend long on this but:

> Just like a single exploding windmill in Denmark doesn't change much about reliability of wind power

First off, you realise France has 56 nuclear power stations? I'm wondering where you're getting "single sample" and "single windmill" from

If, over a year, 40% of windmills in Denmark weren't producing power, it would make a hell of a lot of sense to question the reliability of Danish windmills.

I don't know why you pulled out the straw man of saying the person was questioning all of nuclear power, but they had a very reasonable fact-based question.

I'd be very happy to listen to any data or explanations you could bring, but frankly you don't seem to be discussing things in good faith right now.

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